Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-12-23
IN TOWN AND OUT.
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! i
dust off your New Year resolutions.
MIR. Shields was up from the camp q
few days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John I. Roop will move
into their new house Tuesday.
s. "A. Hawks has transmitted his pre-.
emptien filing to homestead.
Mr.. Armstrong is Oh his way home,
having started Dakotaward on the 18th.
Go to Fl. H. Days, Main st., Bismarck,
for 1ewelry. watches, repairing, etc.
A chlnuook was blowing all last night,
and the mercury was above the freeziu 9
point. ~
+ County yClerk Herrick left yesterday fe,
Bismarck, and expects to get back home
this evening.
The little MissessAiay Lindcrman aue
Rettie Yeatsr spent tho day with thei1
young friend, Miss Maud Shields, Wedncs
day.
r. L. Durant s. Co., wholesale and re.
tail booksellers and stationers. wall paper
and music dealers. Bismarck. Oak, solicit
mail orders.
+ Miss Llbbie Kurtz went over Monday
morning 10 spend the day with MISS Liz
zie Taipe; but the weather kept her there
until Wednesday.
Steele sent in numcrously signed pc
tition to N. P. headquarters at st. Paul,
and now the fast trains stop at the Kid,
der County metropolis.
At church fair in Philadelphia, re-
Gently, Mrs. Blaine beat; Mrs.. Cleveland
fifty votes IN contest as to who is the
most popular woman in the lands
The largest COW in Dakota is reported
from Cass county. She stands six feet
high at the shoulders, and, though thin
in flesh, weighs over 1890 pounds.
Eugene Waldreff departed yesterday
forS Sterling to meet his sister r-ln-law. who
with her three children has come out from
Indiana to make her home in Dakota.
= Go to the New York Art Store C. II.
Phelps, prop'r) Third street. Bismarck.
for-watches jewclry, silyerwarc. wall pa
per, etc. Watch repairing a speciality.
i Notwithstanding the bad weather of
Monday. the Livoua mail went out as
usual and returned on time. The Steele
mail reached Willismsport Tuesday loon,
|. Deputy Sheriff Waldroff, who went
down to Beaver Greek to bring up A. l..
Raynelds, made the return trip Monday,
he and Mr.. Reynolds facing tho blizzard
all the way.
Mr.. --, who lives near -, down
OH Creek, says that he thinks all
the prairie chickens in the county have
settled down his way. He asked us not
to say anything about 1t, as he wants to
get even with the chicks for tho corn
they have stolen.
A young bachelor Of the Bi]lspor,
neighborhood went away from home one
morning this week without scarf. When
he returned in the evening his ears were
carefully muff1ed IN lady's stocking
about three feet long. There wers patches
on tho stocking: Where did he get it?
7 "A youthful and newly married editor
says: "A man never knows anything
about the events of matrimonial life unit
hls garments are all crowded out Of the
closets where his wife hangs up he
| dresses. He then realizes that man anc
wife are one, and knows well who is tA'
lone" -..
| John Blake came up from tho rive
Tuesday, during the storm. He didn'
knew there was blizzard blowing, al
though he had seen the snow whirlin,
in the air above his head. Down whsr
he lives, however, there was q still currsn
of air, and everything wss quiet an
Epleasant.
The RECORDS little ten-yesr-old assist
ant Is getting quite high flown in his Ian
guage. The other day the press was a
work, and he was dong the Keller aet
and was chided for, Skipping out to
often" son." said he, II guess 20
mean to say that am disappearing ever
moment"
Wheu settler in Northwest Territor
desires to visit Ontario for the purpose Q
obtaining = wife, the Canadian Pacifi
railroad company sells kim matrimoni.
ticket at the usual'rate, and on presentin
the return coupon and marrisge certif
cate he is entitled to free transportatio
for his bride.
! Everybody living on tile Missou
Slope knows Or. Dunn, the old:tme
Iu purchasing drugs the public has to d'
pend largely on the dculer's statcmen,
as to- quality and prices. Nobody eve
had reason to complain of his dealln.
with the firm Of Dunn & Co. There efor,
when in Bismarck, be sure to Gallon then
Tho vacant public lands in Dakota al
distributed among the tsn land district
as follows: Aberdeen district, s02.8;
acres Bismarck, 14,2s1, 600; Deadwee,
1878, 40; Devil Lake, ], ,482, ,29s; Farg
281. 900; Grand Forks. 1000; Hurol
157,040; Mitchell, 5000; Watertow
112,825 Yankten, 5000. Total, 23,s11
445 acres.
Although Emmons and neighborir
counties have not settled up as fast
they would have done with q railroad